Does IT Capability Facilitate Technology Agility?: Empirical Research From South Korea

S. Kim, Yijun Liu, Wenxue Yi
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The prime objective of this study is to investigate how a firm's information technology (IT) capabilities facilitate its technological agility and competitive advantages. Drawing from the resource-based view and dynamic capability framework, we propose that information technology capability—IT infrastructure, IT operations, IT personnel, and IT investment—play an essential role in a firm's ability to sense and adopt new technologies to exploit subsequent opportunities. Then, the study conceptualizes enterprises' ability to sense and respond to new technologies with technological agility and tests the hypotheses of a sample of 731 South Korean businesses. The results indicate that IT infrastructure, IT operations, and IT personnel all have a significant positive effect on technological agility and that technological agility can promote firm performance. Furthermore, the empirical result shows that IT investment contributes to improvements in technology sensing but does not affect technology adoption.
IT能力促进了技术敏捷性吗?:韩国的实证研究
本研究的主要目的是探讨企业的信息技术能力如何促进其技术敏捷性和竞争优势。根据资源基础观点和动态能力框架,我们提出信息技术能力——信息技术基础设施、信息技术运营、信息技术人员和信息技术投资——在企业感知和采用新技术以利用后续机会的能力中起着至关重要的作用。然后,研究概念化了企业对新技术的感知和响应能力,并对731家韩国企业的样本进行了假设检验。结果表明,IT基础设施、IT运营和IT人员对技术敏捷性均有显著的正向影响,技术敏捷性对企业绩效有促进作用。此外,实证结果表明,信息技术投资有助于提高技术感知,但不影响技术采用。
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